Last Thursday I was supposed to fly out of the country for a trip to the Czech Republic, Ukraine and Germany, before my fall semester starts in Prague. But thanks to visa issuing delays, those pre-semester plans basically died. So on Thursday, I spent the day at home making earrings which are now for sale! (Only in Metro Manila, Philippines.) If you see something you like, let me know! Prices range from only P50 to P180. :)
Another one of my animations for an assignment entlitled Visual Music. We had to animate to a music track. I made little wire people decked out with some beads and animate a dance. My professor found it really impressive that I didn’t even have to read the music track. Credit that to all the dancing and choreographing I’ve done.
Enjoy!
Animation by Nathania Aritao. March 2010.
Music: “It Was All In Your Mind” by Wade Robson
Another animation by yours truly. Love beads!
A mix of what my professor calls multiples and succeeders.
Two reductive drawings in charcoal. Continuing my PROJECT on the book “50 Facts that Should Change the World” by Jessica Williams.
Globesity. Nathania Aritao. Pencil. June 2010.
As part of my art project on the book “50 Facts That Should Change the World.” Click HERE for more.
Nathania Aritao, charcoal, June 2010
As part of my art project on the book “50 Facts That Should Change the World.” Check it out here.
Beer Can Belly Dance.
March 2010. Another project for my animation class, on a subject my professor calls succeeders. Shot a couple cans of beer as I slowly crushed them.
One of the first prints I’ve made and still one of my personal favorites. I was introduced to the dark room last semester and have fallen in love.
This is a photo of the chandelier in our school chapel. It was so dark and I had to hold the camera so still on the balcony, I was surprised anything even came out on the film. It’s not the best print, since it was probably my first or second time ever printing in the dark room, but I love this one.
My first ever animation called Anticipating Spring. (From February 2010)
Last semester I took an course called Introduction to Animation. For our first assignment, we worked on creating a flip book. The flip books could be anything, but they were all required to have some sort of transformation, to end with the same image that it began with, and to be at least 60 drawings long. The first part of the animation shows the flip book in live motion video. The second part of the video is animated by using a program called Dragon, where each drawing was shot separately.
Although the process of creating the flip book was time consuming, I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. It also helped that I worked on most of it during a 24 marathon with my friends. I’m sure they remember my light table.
Many people who have met me in the last couple of years cannot believe that I grew up thinking that I could never be an artist. I always loved art, but was never the one who could really draw, paint or make photographs. I was a dancer. I was a writer. But never a visual artist.
That’s all changed and it has surprised those who have known me since I was little that I am now a Studio Art Major in college.
My professor once made it clear that there is a difference between being an art student and being an artist taking art classes. I’d like to believe I’m an artist. With all the talent there is in my school’s art department, too many talented students never make art outside the classroom requirements while at school. Sure we doodle, sure we sketch, and sure there really isn’t a lot of time between all the deadlines, but when we do find the time, not as much work or effort goes into our independent art when we aren’t up for class critique the next day.
This is my way of opening the door for my creative juices to flow beyond the art studios at my college. Being an artist is not just about making art, it’s also about sharing it. So, welcome to my own personal studio, the Zebra Ink Art Room.
This art blog will be a home for my random sketches, little art projects, works-in-progress, as well as art completed for classroom credit. Purely text-based blogging just doesn’t cut it for me these days. I’d like my world to be bookmarked by not just words, but images, movement and sound.
One of the most important parts of taking an art class is the critique we get from our peers. Upon completing each assignment or project, we tack our work to the white cork board walls of our classrooms and talk. We share feedback, opinions, advice and praise. The Zebra Ink Art Room is my own white cork board wall on the web to which I can tack my pieces at the end of the day.
A room for my art beyond the art classroom. Welcome to my own personal studio, the Zebra Ink Art Room.
A place to share my random sketches, little art projects, works-in-progress, as well as art completed for classroom credit.
